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Starbucks Japan releases first-ever nationwide watermelon Frappuccino, and it’s a summer stunner
- Oona McGee
Aug 1, 2023 - Tweet
In a country famous for its expensive watermelons, this is a drink we’ve long been waiting for.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • dessert drink • dragon fruit • drinks • Frappuccino • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • passion fruit • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • sweets • watermelon)
Japanese convenience store denies use of Nintendo alien labor in new dessert sandwich
- Casey Baseel
Jul 6, 2023
Family Mart says the name of its new Pikmin-themed fruit sandwich is just a name.
- Japan
- (COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • funny • nintendo • Pikmin • sweets • video games • weird)
Hokkaido farmers have developed a new fruit, the Lemon Melon, combining the best of both
- Dale Roll
Jul 3, 2023
Those who’ve tried it think it might be the perfect fruit for summer!
- Japan
- (expensive fruit • fruit • Furano • Hokkaido • lemon • Lemon Melon • melon • Sapporo)
Godiva releases first-ever chocolate daifuku in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jun 23, 2023
Traditional Japanese sweet gets an indulgent luxury makeover.
- Japan
- (chocolate • chocolates • COK • daifuku • expensive fruit • fruit • Godiva • Japanese sweets • Sembikiya • sweets • taste test • traditional Japanese sweets)
Japanese balloon jellies, or “Tengu’s Treasure”, are a very unique souvenir
- Oona McGee
Jun 19, 2023
Like a water balloon but with a sweet surprise inside that needs popping.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • fruit • Gunma • healthy • healthy eating • Japanese food • jelly • Konjac • konnyaku • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • taste test)
Japanese vending machine sells just one thing at this station
- Oona McGee
Apr 19, 2023
Find out why this machine has been turning heads.
- Japan
- (drinks • fruit • fruit juice • Mr. Sato • SNJO • strawberries • strawberry • strawberry juice • taste test • Tochigi Prefecture • Tochiotome • Tokyo Station • vending machine)
7-Eleven’s new whipped cream sandwich takes Japanese convenience store food to a whole new level
- Oona McGee
Mar 20, 2023
Join us as we try this weird sandwich, and find out why it’s even better without fruit.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • conbini • conbini food • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cream • cream sandwich • fast food • food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • konbini • sandwiches • SNJO • strawberries and cream • strawberry • taste test)
Check out this atago pear from Shimane Prefecture, weighing in at 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds)
- Master Blaster
Jan 26, 2023
This pear’s shape has gone pear-shaped.
- Japan
- (Asahicho • atago pear • food • fruit • Hamada City • pears • Senjoen • Shimane Prefecture • travel)
Japanese makers of Tropicana fined 19 million yen for “100% Melon” juice with only 2% melon juice
- Master Blaster
Jan 20, 2023
Accountability never tasted so sweet.
- Japan
- (COK • crime • drinks • fruit • Kirin Beverage • melon juice • melons • scams • Tropicana • weird)
Yamagata cherries fetch record-breaking price at wholesale market’s first auction of the year
- Krista Rogers
Jan 9, 2023
Here are some other food dishes that you could purchase with the same amount of yen.
- Japan
- (auction • cherries • fruit • highest bid • new year • Ota Market • Sato Nishiki • Tokyo • wholesale • Yamagata)
We try a Le Lectier, the highest-quality European pear available in Japan【Taste Test】
- Dale Roll
Dec 19, 2022
This luxury pear is grown almost exclusively in Niigata. Is it worth splurging on?
- Japan
- (COK • expensive • expensive food • expensive fruit • food • fruit • Le Lectier • Niigata • pears • SNJO • taste test • yellow pears)
The cool way to peel a mandarin, according to a Japanese grandma
- Oona McGee
Dec 14, 2022
Become a mikan master with this neat hack, endorsed by the Japanese government.
- Japan
- (citrus • clever • COK • food • fruit • how to • life hacks • MAFF • mamechishiki • mandarin oranges • mikan • Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries • oranges • peel • peels • satsuma • SNJO • twitter)
Can we pick out the Japanese premium priced persimmon in this blind taste test?
- Katie Pask
Nov 30, 2022
Premium vs. supermarket — we try to avenge our persimmon failings from five years ago.
- Japan
- (blind taste test • COK • expensive food • food • fruit • Isetan • japanese fruit • persimmon • SNJO • taste test)
We try pickling a mysterious fruit gifted to us by a man in the mountains【SoraKitchen】
- Katie Pask
Nov 21, 2022
These delicious pickles are hard to obtain, but even harder to stop eating! Read More
- Japan
- (chayote • cooking • easy recipe • food • fruit • Fujino • Japanese recipe • pickles • Seiji Nakazawa • squash • taste test)
Can we pick out the expensive Japanese grapes in a blind taste test?
- Oona McGee
Sep 27, 2022
Luxury fruit goes head-to-head with a supermarket bunch.
- Japan
- (COK • expensive fruit • food • fruit • grapes • Isetan • japanese fruit • luxury food • Shine Muscat • SNJO • taste test • watermelons)
Can we pick out the expensive Japanese watermelon in a blind taste test?
- Oona McGee
Aug 31, 2022
Taste isn’t the only determining factor for expensive fruit in Japan.
- Japan
- (COK • expensive fruit • food • fruit • Isetan • japanese fruit • luxury food • SNJO • taste test • watermelon • watermelons)
Our 40-year-old reporter tries muscat grapes for the first time, conquers childhood trauma
- Katie Pask
Aug 22, 2022
Seiji Nakazawa discovers that grapes have come a long way in the past 30 years.
- Japan
- (food • fruit • funny • grapes • muscat • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test)
Lindt’s new “Nagano Purple” celebrates a rare luxury Japanese grape variety
- Oona McGee
Jul 28, 2022
Introducing Japan to a new world of fruit flavour.
- Japan
- (chocolate • COK • drinks • fruit • grapes • japanese fruit • Japanese grapes • Japanese sweets • limited edition • Lindt • Nagano Purple • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Do expensive 10,000 yen Japanese cherries taste better than cheap ones from the supermarket?
- Oona McGee
Jul 20, 2022
Blind tasting reveals expensive Japanese fruit might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
- Japan
- (cherries • COK • expensive fruit • food • fruit • Japanese cherries • japanese fruit • SNJO • taste test)
“H” means a few things in Japan, which is why we mistook this vending machine for something else
- Oona McGee
Jul 20, 2022
An H vending machine, right in the heart of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district**.**
- Japan
- (Amaou • COK • cool • food • frozen fruit • fruit • h • Japanese vending machines • Mr. Sato • shinjuku • SNJO • strawberries • vending machine • vending machines • weird • white strawberries • wtf)
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